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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>ISAIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 28
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Woe to the drunkards of Ephraim!—Revelation comes line upon line, and precept upon precept—Christ, the sure foundation, is promised.
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Woe</span> to the crown of pride, to the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/28/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 12: 1 (1-5).">drunkards</a> of <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/28/1b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE the leading tribe of the northern ten tribes of Israel about to be captured by Assyria in 722 B.C.">Ephraim</a>, whose glorious beauty <i>is</i> a fading flower, which <i>are</i> on the head of <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/28/1c" mark="c" type="D" title="IE the valleys of rich produce.">the</a> fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
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Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, <i>which</i> as a <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/28/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 30: 30 (29-31).">tempest</a> of hail <i>and</i> a destroying <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/28/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 38: 9.">storm</a>, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
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The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
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And the glorious beauty, which <i>is</i> on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, <i>and</i> as the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/28/4a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB first, or early fruit.">hasty</a> fruit before the summer; which <i>when</i> he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
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&#182; In <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/28/5a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE a future day, after the scattering of Israel, in the time of preparation for final things.">that</a> day shall the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts be for a crown of <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/28/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 2: 11 (10-12).">glory</a>, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
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And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
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&#182; But <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/28/7a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE religious leaders of a later apostasy.">they</a> also have <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/28/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 56: 10 (10-12).">erred</a> through <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/28/7c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Word of Wisdom.">wine</a>, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/28/7d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG False Prophets.">prophet</a> have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble <i>in</i> judgment.
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For all tables are full of vomit <i>and</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/28/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Filthiness.">filthiness</a>, <i>so that there is</i> no place <i>clean.</i>
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Whom shall he teach <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/28/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Knowledge.">knowledge</a>?  and whom shall he make to understand doctrine?  <i>them that are</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/28/9b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE Instructions in righteousness must begin with the young.">weaned</a> from the <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/28/9c" mark="c" type="A" title="D&C 19: 22.">milk</a>, <i>and</i> drawn from the breasts.
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For precept <i>must be</i> upon precept, <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/28/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 98: 12; D&C 128: 21.">precept</a> upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, <i>and</i> there a little:
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For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
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To whom he said, This <i>is</i> the rest <i>wherewith</i> ye may cause the weary to rest; and this <i>is</i> the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
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But the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> was unto them precept upon precept, <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/28/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 28: 30; D&C 50: 24; D&C 93: 20.">precept</a> upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, <i>and</i> there a little; that they might go, and <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/28/13b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE In spite of the LORD’S instructing Israel through prophets, many of the people apostatized.">fall</a> backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
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&#182; Wherefore hear the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, ye scornful men, that rule this people which <i>is</i> in Jerusalem.
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Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/28/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 45: 31 (30-59).">scourge</a> shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/28/15b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Refuge; TG Trust Not in the Arm of Flesh.">refuge</a>, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
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&#182; Therefore thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>, Behold, I lay in Zion for a <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/28/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hel. 5: 12.">foundation</a> a <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/28/16b" mark="b" type="C" title="Ps. 87: 1; 1 Pet. 2: 6 (6-8); TG Jesus Christ, Prophecies about.">stone</a>, a tried stone, a precious <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/28/16c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Cornerstone.">corner</a> <i>stone,</i> a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
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Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
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&#182; And <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/28/18a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE the evil and conspiring people’s plans.">your</a> covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
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From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only <i>to</i> understand the report.
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For the bed is shorter than that <i>a man</i> can stretch himself <i>on it:</i> and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself <i>in it.</i>
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For the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall rise up as <i>in</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/28/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Sam. 5: 20 (19-20); 1 Chr. 14: 11 (10-11).">mount</a> Perazim, he shall be wroth as <i>in</i> the valley of <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/28/21b" mark="b" type="A" title="Josh. 10: 10 (8-14).">Gibeon</a>, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/28/21c" mark="c" type="A" title="D&C 95: 4; D&C 101: 95.">strange</a> act.
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Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span> of hosts a <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/28/22a" mark="a" type="C" title="Dan. 9: 27; TG World, End of.">consumption</a>, even determined upon the whole earth.
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&#182; Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
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Doth the plowman plow all day to sow?  doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
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When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
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For his God doth instruct him to discretion, <i>and</i> doth teach him.
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For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
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Bread <i>corn</i> is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break <i>it with</i> the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it <i>with</i> his horsemen.
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This also <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/28/29a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE The reaping and threshing of the world (as on a farm, v. 23-29) will be properly done by the LORD.">cometh</a> forth from the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, <i>which</i> is wonderful in counsel, <i>and</i> excellent in working.
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